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bigquestionon Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

Could all the large software applications of today have been created without OOP, just on functional programming paradigms? If OOP was beneficial 10 years on, maybe the cross-platform nature of HTML/CSS/JS will also be vital to future applications.

bigquestionon Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

So this generation is rewriting everything that was made and working in the 90s. Was everything written in the 90s also a rehash of stuff from the 70s/80s? Just curious, what was the equivalent of HTML/CSS/JS in the 80s?

bigquestionon Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize)

To increase the efficiency of many people working in diverse domains, probably a '1-size-fits-all' solution would be hard to find. So something generic - one idea is, generally getting mentored by someone more experienced than you increases your efficiency/helps your career. (Mostly) everybody could use a guide/mentor, either for careers or personal lives. It could be a sort of referral program - to get access to a mentor older than you, you have to mentor someone younger than you.

bigquestionon Ask HN: Double the income of 10 million people? (Hult Prize)

Yes its probably simpler for the poorest 10 million. For the urban poor(no agriculture) maybe some sort of 'become a microentrepreneur' movement would be more relevant? Maybe a Mechanical Turk for real-world tasks instead of computing tasks?